The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Tuesday over the religious rights of parents in Maryland to remove their children ...

Multiple casualties are feared after assailants indiscriminately fired at tourists visiting a beauty spot in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Tuesday, officials said. Police ...

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 14 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and destroyed bulldozers and other heavy equipment that had been ...

Israeli police on Tuesday were scouring the waters off the country’s Mediterranean coast for a swimmer who they fear may have been attacked by a shark, in an area that ...

Cardinal Kevin Farrell remembers the day Pope Francis asked him to be the camerlengo, the Vatican official who runs the Holy ...

The Anti-Defamation League says the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States reached a record high last year and ...

Advocating for migrants was one of Pope Francis’ top priorities. His papacy saw a refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, ...

Few moments in Pope Francis’ papacy better exemplify his understanding of climate change and the need to address it than the ...

Cardinals have taken their first decisions following the death of Pope Francis, setting Saturday as the date for his funeral ...

The death of Pope Francis has sent shockwaves through Iraq’s Christian community, where his presence once brought hope after ...

Grief and tributes for Pope Francis were shared around the world Tuesday, a day after the popular pontiff died at age 88. Cardinals will meet at the Vatican Tuesday to begin scheduling Pope ...